Donald Sumpter

Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. His early film work included a lead role as real life British criminal Donald Neilson in the 1977 film, The Black Panther. He also appeared in many television films and serials, including adaptations of Dickens' novels: Nicholas Nickleby in 2001, Great Expectations in 1999 and Bleak House in 1985. Also in 1985, he was remembered for the part of villain Ronnie Day in Big Deal. He played the part of suspected serial killer Alexander Bonaparte Cust in the (1992) Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, The ABC Murders. He has also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Holby City, and A Touch of Frost. He also had a recurring role as Uncle Ginger in the Children's BBC series The Queen's Nose. He played Harold Chapple in Our Friends in the North, and portrayed the physicist Max Planck in Einstein and Eddington. He has also been seen as Kemp in the horror-drama series Being Human. In 2011 he portrayed Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones. His film appearances include The Constant Gardener (2005), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Enigma (2001) and Ultramarines: The Movie (2010).

Known For: Acting

Born: Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK, 1943-02-13

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Window Cleaner	David	0
2	1968	Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space	Enrico Casali	60
3	1968	The Lost Continent	Sparks, the Radioman	56
4	1969	Night After Night After Night	Pete Laver	50
5	1970	Mad Jack		0
6	1970	The Walking Stick	Max	75
7	1970	I Am a Groupie	Steve	29
8	1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Party Guest	66
9	1971	Bleak Moments	Norman's Friend	61
10	1972	Doctor Who: The Sea Devils	Commander Ridgeway	75
11	1972	The Breaking of Colonel Keyser	Dellow	0
12	1974	Mr. Axelford's Angel	David	85
13	1974	Stardust	TV Concert Producer	58
14	1975	The Saliva Milkshake	Johnny	0
15	1977	Hardcore	Mark	33
16	1977	Catchpenny Twist	Spalding	0
17	1977	The Black Panther	Donald Neilson	58
18	1978	Les Misérables	Agent	72
19	1979	A Light That Shines	Brother Martin Jerome	0
20	1979	Meetings with Remarkable Men	Pogossian	64
21	1980	The Tom Machine	Tom	0
22	1981	Antony & Cleopatra	Pompeius	63
23	1983	Curse of the Pink Panther	Dave	46
24	1991	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Claudius	69
25	1991	Aimée	Frank	20
26	1992	Bad Ronald	Michael, le père	0
27	1994	Grushko	Kartashov	60
28	1994	Being Human	Salgado	51
29	1995	Richard III	Brackenbury	67
30	1997	Tangier Cop	Ahmed Yaasin	10
31	1999	Great Expectations	Compeyson	62
32	2001	Enigma	Leveret	64
33	2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Mr. Brooker	79
34	2001	The Point Men	Benni Baum	41
35	2002	K-19: The Widowmaker	Dr. Savran	65
36	2004	The Long Bank Holiday	Alfie Clemens	80
37	2005	The Constant Gardener	Tim Donohue	70
38	2006	Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener	Self	40
39	2006	Dracula	Alfred Singleton	56
40	2007	Eastern Promises	Yuri	74
41	2008	Heist	King Edward	52
42	2008	Hello Sailor!		0
43	2008	Einstein and Eddington	Max Planck	68
44	2009	Into the Storm	Lord Halifax	64
45	2010	Among Us	Man on bench	62
46	2010	London Boulevard	Pentonville Governor	59
47	2010	Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie	Pythol (voice)	58
48	2011	Way of the Morris	Voice of Creation	80
49	2011	The Murder at Road Hill House	Peter Edlin QC	61
50	2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell	74
51	2014	Bypass	Grandfather	60
52	2015	Coalition	Paddy Ashdown	70
53	2015	In the Heart of the Sea	Paul Macy	68
54	2017	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Haddock / Ghost of Marley	68
55	2024	Limonov: The Ballad	Eddie's Father	64
56	2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Chairman	69

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Doctor Who	Enrico Casali	79
2	1963	Doctor Who	Commander Ridgeway	79
3	1966	Softly, Softly		50
4	1969	The First Churchills		63
5	1970	Play for Today		63
6	1970	The Adventures of Don Quick		50
7	1971	Barlow		60
8	1971	Justice	Villiers	60
9	1975	Quiller	Brenman	0
10	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Aram	78
11	1977	Target		65
12	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Brother Martin Jerome	70
13	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Pompeius	60
14	1979	Shoestring		68
15	1979	Minder	Sudbury	68
16	1981	Bergerac	Roscoe	67
17	1982	The Brack Report	Paul Brack	50
18	1983	Taggart		63
19	1984	The Bill		67
20	1985	Bleak House	'Nemo'	60
21	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Edward Peveril	62
22	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Cust	82
23	1990	Drop the Dead Donkey		70
24	1992	Between the Lines		56
25	1992	A Touch of Frost		75
26	1994	Crocodile Shoes		72
27	1995	Queen's Nose	Uncle Ginger	70
28	1996	Our Friends in the North	Commander Harold Chapple	74
29	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
30	1996	Cold Lazarus	Dr. Rawl	68
31	1997	Midsomer Murders	Tim Settingfield	75
32	1997	Bombay Blue	Supt. John Mayberry	0
33	1999	Great Expectations	Compeyson	0
34	2001	In Deep	Keith Sullivan	100
35	2002	Spooks	Stephen Kirby	77
36	2002	Ultimate Force		66
37	2002	Rose and Maloney		62
38	2003	The Last Detective		76
39	2003	Seven Wonders of the Industrial World		66
40	2004	The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey	Indenrigsminister Nacuk	69
41	2005	Doctor Who	The President	76
42	2006	Eleventh Hour		62
43	2007	Fallen Angel	Simon Martlesham	45
44	2007	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Erasmus Darkening	71
45	2007	Heroes and Villains		70
46	2008	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Parson Tringham	76
47	2008	Merlin	The Fisher King	78
48	2009	Being Human	Kemp	70
49	2011	Game of Thrones	Maester Luwin	85
50	2011	Black Mirror	Julian Hereford	83
51	2012	The Secret of Crickley Hall	Gordon Pyke	73
52	2013	Endeavour	Emil Valdemar	81
53	2013	The Mill	Samuel Greg	73
54	2013	Peaky Blinders	Arthur Bigge	85
55	2013	Atlantis	Tiresius	64
56	2014	Quirke	Josh Crawford	58
57	2014	New Worlds	Sidney	60
58	2014	One Child	Jim Arthurton	72
59	2015	12 Monkeys	Seer	74
60	2015	Jekyll and Hyde	Garson	63
61	2018	Les Misérables	Mabeuf	74
62	2019	Chernobyl	Zharkov	87
63	2020	Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret	Bishop Peter Ball	80
64	2021	The Cleaner	Sir James	70
65	2023	Entitled	Quincy	45

Donald Sumpter

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